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• Home Page
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• What's New
• About Flutopedia
• History of Flutopedia.com
• About this Web Site
• Acknowledgements
• Tribal Identification
• Revision History
• Honoring the Tradition
• How You Can Contribute to these Native American Flute Resources
• Supporters of Flutopedia
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• Legal information
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• Pronunciation Guide
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• Using the Flutopedia Audio Player
• Font Installation
• Glossary
• References

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Frequently Asked Questions

• FAQ — General
• FAQ — Crafting Native American Flutes
• FAQ — Technology Basics

Basics

• Native American Flute Sounds
• Keys of Native American Flutes
• Anatomy of the Native American Flute  B
• A Brief History of the Native American Flute  B
• Narratives of the Native American Flute  B
• Plains Style and Woodlands Style Native American Flutes   I 
• Ergonomics of Holding a Native American Flute
• Ergonomics Survey
• How to Tie the Block on a Native American flute
• Conventions
• Numbering the Holes   I 
• Finger Diagram Orientation   I 
• Finger Layout
• Names of the Native American Flute  B
• Flute Identification

Playing Native American Flutes

• Playing the Native American Flute
• Basic Playing Topics
• Breath Practices for Flute Players  B
• Articulation  B
• Getting the Most out of Each Note  B
• From Scales to Songs  B
• Alphabet Songs   I 
• Ending Notes  B
• Meter  B
• Reference Drones
• Hestekor: The Singing Ponies
• Background Tracks for Two and Three Chord Vamps Videos
• Background Tracks for FluteCast Videos
• Written Music
• SNAFT – Simplified Native American Flute Tablature
• Nakai Tablature for the Native American Flute   I 
• TrueType Finger Diagram Fonts
• Sylphyo Finger Diagram Fonts
• Cut-and-Paste Finger Diagrams
• Accessibility Issues and Finger Diagrams
• Blank Native American flute Tablature
• Songs
• Song Book Overview
• Amazing Grace
• Lyrics
• History of the Amazing Grace Melody
• … as the Cherokee National Anthem
• Early Recorded Music
• Recordings on the Native American Flute
• Sheet Music for the Native American Flute
• America
• Blue Feathers
• Bridal Chorus
• By the Waters of Minnetonka
• Colors of the Wind
• Death Song of the Cherokee Indians
• Earth My Body
• Hon Shirabe
• Kayowajineh
• Maliseet Love Song
• Membertou's Three Songs
• Ode to Joy
• Origin of the Flageolet (Mandan and Hidatsa)
• Pokarekare Ana (Maori)
• Sakura
• Shenandoah
• Silent Night - for Two Native American Flutes
• Simple Gifts
• Summertime
• Taps
• The Huron Carol
• The Hurrian Hymn - The Oldest Written Song
• Wendeyaho (Tinhanama)
• Yaquis Deer Dance
• You Are My Sunshine
• Yuma Lullaby
• Zuni Sunrise
• Evaluating a Flute
• Checking out a New Flute
• Electronic Tuners
• Tuning
• Care and Maintenance  B
• Intermediate Topics
• Steps and Leaps   I 
• Ornaments   I 
• The Warble
• Vibrations and Intervals
• Sound and Vibration
• Perfect Intervals
• Smaller Intervals
• Pentatonic Minor
• Keys of Flutes
• Beyond Pentatonic Minor
• Modes
• Mode Four
• More Intervals
• The Second Register
• Guitar Accompaniment
• Simple Guitar Accompaniment for Native American Flute – Standard Tuning
• Simple Guitar Accompaniment for Native American Flute – DADFAD Tuning
• Guitar Chords to Accompany the Native American Flute
• Harmonic Pairings, or … Which Flutes Go Together?
• The Circle of Fifths
• Piano Accompaniment for Native American Flutes
• Music-related Literature for the Native American Flute
• Poetry for Music Performance
• Rumi Poetry related to Music
• Poetry and Readings for Memorial Services
• Readings and Quotations on Music
• Readings on Silence
• Benedictions, Invocations, and Blessings
• The Magic Flute — A Journey in Time and Music — by Kaye Whitefeather Robinson
• Double Flute Techniques
• Scales
• Scale Overview
• The Comprehensive Scale Catalog
• Comprehensive Scale Catalog — PDF Files
• Comprehensive Scale Catalog — XML Version of the entire database
• Two-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Three-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Four-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Four-tone Scales, Alternate Temperaments
• Five-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Five-tone Scales, Equal Temperament, Pattern Scales — Part 1
• Five-tone Scales, Equal Temperament, Pattern Scales — Part 2
• Five-tone Scales, Alternate Temperaments
• Six-tone Scales, Equal Temperament — Part 1
• Six-tone Scales, Equal Temperament — Part 2
• Seven-tone Scales, Equal Temperament — Part 1
• Seven-tone Scales, Equal Temperament — Part 2
• Seven-tone Scales, Alternate Temperaments
• Eight-tone Scales, Equal Temperament — Part 1
• Eight-tone Scales, Equal Temperament — Page 2
• Nine-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Ten-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Eleven-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Twelve-tone Scales, Equal Temperament
• Twelve-tone Scales, Alternate Temperaments
• Intervals
• Chords
• Ajnas
• Useful Scales for Native American Flutes
• Intervals on Native American Flutes
• Scale Index
• Low Register
• Pentatonic Minor
• Pentatonic Major
• Mode Four Pentatonic Minor
• Hexatonic Minor
• Northern Scale
• Bugle Scale
• Blues - Six-Note
• Blues - Seven-Note
• Extended Scales
• Spanish Gypsy - Extended
• Byzantine - Extended
• Pentatonic Minor - Extended
• Hirajoshi - Extended
• Miyako-Bushi - Extended
• Fingerings Charts
• Fingerings Overview
• Fingerings for Six-Hole Pentatonic Minor flutes
• Fingerings for Five-Hole Pentatonic Minor flutes
• Fingerings for Six-Hole Diatonic flutes
• Fingerings for Six-Hole Mode 2/5 flutes
• Fingerings for Anasazi flutes
• Fingerings for Anasazi Seven flutes
• Native American flute fingerings for the Sylphyo by Aodyo
• Historical Maker-Specific Fingering Charts
• Amon Olorin Six-hole
• Butch Hall
• Butch Hall Pre-2005 Six-hole
• Butch Hall Kit Six-hole
• Diatonic Six-hole
• Forest Flute Six-hole
• Foxhead Six-hole
• Heartsong Six-hole
• High Spirits Five-hole
• Lakota Five-hole
• Moonlight Creek
• Moonlight Creek Six-hole
• Moonlight Creek Five-hole
• Pat Haran Six-hole
• Spirit of the Woods Six-hole
• Stellar Six-hole
• Tony Sawyer Six-hole
• White Crow Six-hole
• Wind Song Six-hole
• Song Composition
• Composition Techniques and Song Forms — Overview
• Journey from a Home Phrase
• Solo Drone Song Form
• Compound Meters
• Recording and Technology
• Selecting a Microphone for Recording Native American flute — by Barry Higgins
• Advanced Topics
• Dexterity Exercises   I 
• Woven Scales
• Rhythmic Chirping (also called “Rhythmic Grace Notes”)
• How the Design of a Native American Flute Affects the Way it Plays A
• Facilitation
• Cultural Considerations for Facilitators
• Miscellaneous Topics
• Breaking out of a RUT   I 
• Octave Notation
• Flute Rack

Crafting Native American Flutes

• Native American Flute Construction
• Flute Makers' Forum
• Binding a Flute to Repair or Prevent Cracking
• Native American Flute Tunings
• Map of Native American Flute Tunings
• Flute Crafting Dimensions
• Bore Diameters
• Finger Hole Placement
• Equal-Spaced Finger Hole Placement
• Steve Petermann – Seven-Hole Flute Design Software
• Finger Hole Size
• Nodal Interference — by Mike Prairie
• Tuning Methods
• Basic-Six Method for Tuning Native American Flutes
• Basic-Five Method for Tuning Native American Flutes
• Bob Grealish Method for Tuning Native American Flutes
• Breath Pressure in Ethnic Wind Instruments
• Plans and Designs
• Plans for Making Native American Flutes
• Design of the Roura Native American flute
• Fipple Designs
• Fipple Designs for Native American Flutes
• Basic Fipple Design
• Single Bevel / Flat Top Fipple Design
• Two Bevel / Flat Top Fipple Design
• Two Bevel / Sharp Fipple Design
• Three Bevel Fipple Design
• Branch Flutes
• Acoustic Length of a Flute — by Mike Prairie
• Patents Relating to Flute Construction
• Drill Bit Conversion Table
• Calculators
• Overview of Calculators
• Basic Native American Flute Design Tool — A tool for finding notes and finger layouts for a wide range of flutes
• Guided NAFlutomat - Native American Flute Design Tool — a step-by-step approach
• NAFlutomat - Native American Flute Design Tool — by Edward Kort, Pete Kosel, Lew Paxton Price, and Clint Goss
• Pitch-to-Frequency Calculator — Convert between musical pitch and the frequency
• CrossTune - Tool for Tuning a Native American flute for a Different Environment — by Clint Goss, Edward Kort, Pete Kosel, and Lew Price
• The Color of Sound — A tool for exploring the relationship between notes and their consonant colors.

History and Development of Flutes

• The Evolution of Music
• A Timeline of Flute Development
• Flute Development
• The Development of Flutes in Europe and Asia
• The Development of Flutes in the Americas
• The Development of Flutes in North America
• Proto-Flutes and Yucca Stalks
• The L'Anse Amour Flute
• Flutes of Gilgamesh and Ancient Mesopotamia
• Designations for Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian Clay Tablets
• Anasazi Flutes from the Broken Flute Cave
• Contemporary Rim-Blown Flutes
• The Flutes of Pueblo Bonito
• The Breckenridge Flute
• Organ Pipes and the Native American Flute
• Venus of Lespugue
• The Beltrami Flutes - The Earliest Known Wooden Native American Flute
• Native American Flutes in the David T. Vernon Indian Arts Collection
• The Flute and Flute Music of the North American Indians — thesis by Judy Epstein Buss, 1977
• Instrumental and Vocal Love Songs of the North American Indians — thesis by Mary Frances Riemer, 1978
• Ethnographic Recordings
• Ethnographic Recordings Overview
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of North America — Organized by Culture
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of North America — Organized Chronologically
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of Canada — Organized Chronologically
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of Central America — Organized by Culture
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of South America — Organized by Culture
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of Europe — Organized by Culture
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of the Middle East — Organized Chronologically
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of Africa — Organized Chronologically
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of Asia — Organized by Culture
• Ethnographic and Reference Flute Recordings of Oceana — Organized Chronologically
• Early Flute Recording Discography — by Steve Bliven
• The Indianist Movement
• Video Interview with O. W. Jones

Resources

• Classification of Flutes
• Flutes of the World
• World Flute Survey
• Indigenous North American Flutes
• The Medieval Recorder
• The Western Concert Family of Flutes
• Carrying Native American Flutes on Commercial Flights
• Flute Circle Materials
• Flute Circle Pamphlet
• Physiology
• Your Brain on Flute
• Articles
• Nudge, Nudge
• Right in Tune
• Widening the Circle
• A Room Full of Flute Players
• This is my Music
• Lessons on Lessons
• Links
• Native American Flute-Related Organizations
• Discussion Groups, List Servers, and Social Media
• Museums, Libraries, and Cultural Sites
• Ethnic Flute and World Music Shops
• Roster of Other Native American flute-Related Resources
• Glossary
• Sound Libraries for Native American Flutes
• Flute Catalog
• Documentation
• Old Flutes
• Ancient Flutes
• All Flutes by Culture, Maker, of Collection
• All Flutes by Group
• All Flutes by Crafting Date
   
  
• Flute Catalog – A
• Flute Catalog – B
• Flute Catalog – C
• Flute Catalog – D
• Flute Catalog – E
• Flute Catalog – F
• Flute Catalog – G
• Flute Catalog – H
• Flute Catalog – I
• Flute Catalog – J
• Flute Catalog – K
• Flute Catalog – L
• Flute Catalog – M
• Flute Catalog – N
• Flute Catalog – O
• Flute Catalog – P
• Flute Catalog – Q
• Flute Catalog – R
• Flute Catalog – S
• Flute Catalog – T
• Flute Catalog – U
• Flute Catalog – V
• Flute Catalog – W
• Flute Catalog – X
• Flute Catalog – Y
• Flute Catalog – Z
• References
• Alternate Citation Formats
• References – A
• References – B
• References – C
• References – D
• References – E
• References – F
• References – G
• References – H
• References – I
• References – J
• References – K
• References – L
• References – M
• References – N
• References – O
• References – P
• References – Q
• References – R
• References – S
• References – T
• References – U
• References – V
• References – W
• References – X
• References – Y
• References – Z
   
  
• Acoustics and Psycho-acoustics
• Ancient Music References
• Archaeology References
• Audio Recordings
• Breath Pressure References
• Crafting Native American Flutes
• Emotion and Music References
• Ergonomics References
• Ethnobotany References
• Ethnographic Recording References
• Ethnomusicology References
• Instruction for Playing Native American flutes
• Legal References
• Maori Flute References
• Music Education References
• Musical Temperament References
• Physiology
• Poetry References
• Song Books
• Video Recordings
• Voice of the Wind (listed chronologically)
• Miscellaneous Resources
• 日本語ドキュメント «Japanese-language Resources and Documents»
• Fujara
• What is the Fujara?
• Fujara Fingering Chart
• Amazing Grace - Sheet Music for the Fujara
• A Little Star Shines - Sheet Music for the Fujara
• Fujara Measurements
• Crafting a PVC Fujara
• Fujara Floor Stand
• Fujara Wall Stand
• Native American Indian Tribal Map
• Overall Tribal Map
• Tribal Map - NorthWest
• Tribal Map - North Central
• Tribal Map - NorthEast
• Tribal Map - SouthWest
• Tribal Map - South Central
• Tribal Map - SouthEast
• Ethnological Museum of Berlin
• The Racket
• Yamaha S08 Synthesizer Configruation Files

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